“Will that be enough?”
“How much are you planning to charge for rent?”
Do Jun burst into a small laugh.
After casually brushing his face, he took a deep breath and his chest swelled.
His loose gaze tightened.
“I don’t have children to inherit my property, and my father is in a nursing home.”
“……”
“When my father passes away, I plan to let everything go and leave.”
“Leave?”
“Then the things I currently have will rather become a burden.”
“Do Jun…”
“Would there have been another woman in my life if not for you? Even if only on paper, we were married for a whole three years.”
Hae Joo, who had been on her guard against Do Jun, began to waver.
It wasn’t just her imagination that he seemed to have no regrets about his life when she first saw him yesterday.
Moreover, it was hard to see it as a remark that a moneyobsessed person would make.
“Choose. Become a divorcee at a flowerlike age in a year, or take the inheritance I give you.”
“Are you saying you’re going to die?”
“I’ve earned money, and although it was just for show, I’ve been married. Isn’t that enough?”
“Is that what you’re saying now?”
“When the right time comes, I’ll disappear on my own. So!”
Do Jun’s voice became fiercely split. He came forward, stroking Hae Joo’s shoulderlength hair with the back of his hand. She held her breath at the slowly passing touch.
“You can take it all.”
“…!”
“I’ll give you everything. Got it?”
“Don’t act like you’re going to die soon!”
It was utterly malicious.
Even if one was an enemy, one couldn’t run away from a dying person.
To Hae Joo, his words sounded like a desperate threat. Her emotions rebounded more than when she was tied up tight.
Do Jun roughly swept his hair back. After a few breaths, he softened somewhat and met Hae Joo’s eyes.
“Don’t rush. What’s the hurry?”
“Do Jun sir.”
“You need to leave now. Rest well.”
Do Jun turned around and went down the stairs.
Leaving only Hae Joo behind, he left a huge blank space like this.
“I feel like I’m the only bad person.”
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t remember where she had seen Do Jun.
Frustrated, Hae Joo rubbed her burning throat. Whenever she breathed, his scent still stained the tip of her nose.
“I’m annoyed.”
The marriage scandal was a disaster for Hae Joo.
In order to protect the success she had barely grasped, she had to meticulously calculate and prepare for any possible accident.
In contrast, it was easy for Do Jun.
Although she didn’t know if he had other intentions, she couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“I need to get it together.”
After changing clothes on the second floor and going down to the first floor, dinner was ready. Do Jun was already gone, and she sat alone at the dinner table.
All she could think of was that she wanted to rest quickly.
Perhaps because the space he left behind was too large, her mood kept feeling strange.
“He said he’s going to disappear.”
Jin Han might have rebelled if he had heard this.
But Hae Joo couldn’t.
Even if she got a divorce, she didn’t want anything bad to happen to Do Jun.
The reason Hae Joo was able to leave the house was thanks to the fifty million won that President Park had given her. Although she was suffering from the scandal, she had to acknowledge this part.
Despite his harsh expression, Do Jun hadn’t wronged Hae Joo.
The beast donned raw energy, and it was surmised that it behaved as such due to its inability to express.
As the stream of consciousness flowed to this point, the once upright soul slightly trembled.
But, it was still bearable.
For now.
Do Jun rushed to Shinsadong in the car driven by Manager Song. The phone rang urging him, as he had already passed the appointment time.
“I’ll be there soon.”
Contrary to his words, Do Jun hoped to arrive as late as possible because the traffic was jammed.
At the promised drinking party, besides CEO Kim, several wealthy people who had entrusted large amounts of money to the Jino Group gathered.
Today, it wasn’t work that had called him.
All of them were middleaged fathers with daughters, and they had been eyeing Do Jun.
While playing the game of who would first pair their daughter with Do Jun, they were struck in the back of the head today.
The husband of the actress who had a sudden marriage scandal was none other than Do Jun.
“Do I have to go?”
“Just keep pace and come back.”
Leaving Hae Joo at home did not sit well with him. He wanted to turn the car around right now, but the situation did not permit.
“The business owner will now file for bankruptcy.”
“Understood.”
There was still one debtor who had not paid back President Park’s money.
That one person was Kyung Ae.
Kyung Ae borrowed money again as it became difficult to run the cafe after Hae Joo left the house.
President Park gave her the money knowing he would not get it back.
At the time, Do Jun asked why he did that, and President Park said this.
‘I gave it to her because she’s a bad person.’
‘Excuse me?’
‘I was worried she might harass the daughter who barely left to live.’
‘…….’
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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